Clive Porter
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This is a vivid account of one happy season for Kent County Cricket Club. In 1906 they won the County Championship for the first time. Many of the tal
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ented cricketers responsible for their victory formed the backbone of a team that was to enjoy great success, including three further championships, in the next eight years before the outbreak of the First World War.
The emphasis is on the manner of that 1906 achievement: fast scoring; High quality bowling; brilliant fielding. The story is told from the perspective of contemporary press coverage, local as well as national, together with that to be found in the biographies and autobiographies. The cricket of the Golden Age lives again.
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